Virginia Woolf Public and Private Negotiations

In this new paperback edition of Virginia Woolf: Public and Private Negotiations , Anna Snaith explores the centrality of ideas of public and private in Woolf's life and writing. The book offers a fresh understanding of Woolf's feminism, her narrative techniques, her attitudes to publication, and her role in public debate. It draws on new manuscript material and previously unexplored letters to Woolf from her reading public.

Anna Snaith is Lecturer, Anglia Polytechnic University, Cambridge.

Acknowledgements

viii

Abbreviations of Texts

x

Virginia Woolf

Introduction

1

(1)

Woolf in public

1

(5)

The public and the private

6

(10)

From Private to Public: Hyde Park Gate to Bloomsbury

16

(26)

Women in public

16

(8)

The journey to Bloomsbury

24

(6)

Suffrage

30

(4)

London to Sussex

34

(8)

Representing Women's Lives

42

(21)

Publication

42

(3)

Writing women: avoiding definition

45

(4)

The problematics of publicity

49

(2)

Auto/biography

51

(12)

`A Sketch of the Past'

53

(3)

`The Journal of Mistress Joan Martyn'

56

(7)

`I wobble'. Narrative Strategies: Public and Private Voices

63

(25)

Negotiating Genre: Re-visioning History in The Pargiters

88

(25)

The Reading Public: Respondents to Three Guineas

113

(17)

`With this odd mix up of public & private I left off': War, Audience and Artist 1938--1941

130

(27)

Invasion of the private by the public

130

(12)

Fiction: public as audience

142

(11)

The last essays: `no conclusions'

153

(4)

`A little cairn of conjectures'

157

(9)

Notes

166

(17)

Bibliography

183

(9)

Index

192

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Virginia Woolf Public and Private Negotiations

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